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How many languages has the Bible been translated into?

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This answer pertains specifically to the New Testament of the Holy Bible, my apologies for not being able to answer for the entire Word.
The Gideons International has now achieved distribution of the New Testament in more than 80 languages and placed copies in more then 180 countries around the globe. --- Wycliffe and other agencies have also generated translations so that today, March 2011,
The world has the Bible translated into 2,018 languages, and countless partial translations, and audio translations for unwritten languages. In comparison, works by William Shakespeare have been translated into fifty languages.--- There are an estimated 6,700 recognized languages in the world.

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